Thursday, December 25, 2014

They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their
condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at
the base of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments while demanding
prayer in school. They appeal to God to save America from their
political opponents, mostly Democrats. They gather in football stadiums
by the thousands to pray for the country’s salvation.

They are God’s frauds, cafeteria Christians who pick and
choose which Bible verses they heed with less care than they exercise in
selecting side orders for lunch. They are joined by religious
rationalizers—fundamentalists who, unable to find Scripture supporting
their biases and beliefs, twist phrases and modify translations to prove
they are honoring the Bible’s words.

This is no longer a matter of personal or private faith.
With politicians, social leaders and even some clergy invoking a book
they seem to have never read and whose phrases they don’t understand,
America is being besieged by Biblical illiteracy. Climate change is said
to be impossible because of promises God made to Noah; Mosaic law from
the Old Testament directs American government; creationism should be
taught in schools; helping Syrians resist chemical weapons attacks is a
sign of the end times—all of these arguments have been advanced by
modern evangelical politicians and their brethren, yet none of them are
supported in the Scriptures as they were originally written.

Oh, and you've probably been hearing about the Illuminati, free masons, new world order and such, well here's a video that sheds a little light on who is supposed to be who and what they're supposed to be doing: Might as well get it out there all in one go. Let me say I have no idea what to believe, even though I see a lot of truth and good information, I cannot figure out if the surrounding stories are being spun right, despite the fact that some, clearly ridiculous. claims creep into the narrative.

Monday, December 22, 2014

St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch gave an interview to local radio station KTRS following the news that witness 40 invented her testimony
and likely perjured herself in front of the grand jury, and as we've
come to expect from McCulloch, he was as unrepentant as ever about his
decision to put her on the stand and on the way he conducted the grand
jury hearing.Some witnesses lied to Michael Brown grand jury, McCulloch says. So why have them testify?:
Certain witnesses who spoke before the grand jury
investigating the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown told obvious lies
under oath, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said Friday.

The committee reviewed 20 of the most frequent and prominent
examples of purported "successes" that the CIA has attributed to the
use of its enhanced interrogation techniques. Each of those examples was
found to be wrong. READ MORE

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report
on the CIA’s extensive use of torture reveals that the agency regularly
misled the White House and Congress about the information it had
obtained from detainees and used techniques that are far more brutal
than it — or former Bush administration officials — had previously
acknowledged.

For instance, President George W. Bush insisted that “[t]his government does not torture people”
and claimed that the intelligence it produced was instrumental to
preventing terrorism on American soil and capturing high-value targets,
including Osama bin Laden. But the Committee’s five year investigation —
and examination of more than six million CIA documents — reveals all of
those assertions to be false

For its part, the CIA acknowledged that it “did not always live up
to the high standards that we set for ourselves” and “made mistakes” in
how it ran the program, particularly “early on” when the CIA “was
unprepared and lacked the core competencies required.” However, it
insisted that “there are too many flaws for [this report] to stand as
the official record of the program” and strongly disputed “that the
agency’s assessments were willfully misrepresented in a calculated
effort to manipulate.”

Republicans are similarly shielding
the agency from criticism, claiming that the report is “ideologically
motivated and distorted recounting of historical events.” “The fact that
the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation program developed significant
intelligence that helped us identify and capture important al-Qa’ida
terrorists, disrupt their ongoing plotting, and take down Usama Bin
Ladin is incontrovertible,” Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Saxby
Chambliss (R-GA), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, said in a statement. READ MORE

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, was waterboarded at least 183 times and underwent rectal rehydration by CIA interrogators, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee report.

In most cases, the
report from the Senate Intelligence Committee found, the harsh methods —
which critics have deemed torture — yielded no solid intelligence. The
tactics were also found to frequently cause significant psychological
and emotional harm to those on the receiving end.

The report released by the Senate Intelligence
Committee on Tuesday is the first public accounting
of the CIA’s use of what critics call torture on al-Qaeda
detainees held at 'black sites' in Europe and Asia after
the Sept. 11 attacks.

The report from the
Senate Intelligence Committee is the first public accounting of the
CIA’s use of what critics call torture on Al Qaeda detainees. The
summary discloses for the first time that 119 prisoners were held in CIA
custody and that 26 or more were held because of mistaken identities or
bad intelligence.

WASHINGTON — The CIA abused dozens of terror suspects in the years
after 9/11, misled policymakers about what it was doing and then falsely
claimed the harsh interrogations made America safer, a scathing Senate
report charged Tuesday.

Beginning in 2002, the interrogations played out at secret, shadowy
detention facilities in Asia and Eastern Europe, including an
Afghanistan site called the “dungeon.”

The tough tactics included stripping suspects, depriving them of sleep
for days at a time, waterboarding them, and confining them in boxes.
Some were placed in ice baths, or force-fed rectally. Captives were
slapped, slammed against walls, and bombarded with threats that they
would be killed or family members would be harmed.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

orian Johnson was with Michael Brown when he was shot Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo., and was interviewed by the FBI and county police.

A review of the thousands of pages of documents released by St. Louis County prosecutors turned up no transcript or recording of a two-hour FBI and county police interview with Johnson, who was with the 18-year-old when he was shot.
the associated press

Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 1:39 AM

A law enforcement interview with a key witness to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown doesn’t appear to be included among thousands of pages of documents released after a grand jury decided not to indict a Ferguson, Mo., police officer in the case.

The Associated Press reviewed more than 5,700 pages of documents released by St. Louis County prosecutors, but found no transcript or recording of a two-hour FBI and county police interview with Brown’s friend Dorian Johnson, who was with the 18-year-old when he was shot. The discrepancy was first reported by KSDK-TV.

The documents include seven video clips of Johnson’s media interviews, as well as a transcript of his testimony to the grand jury that investigated the shooting.

The transcript notes that jurors listened to a recording of an Aug. 13 interview of Johnson by the federal and county investigators, but documents released to the public don’t appear to include a separate transcript of that August interview. READ MORE

Polk County Sheriff’s Office Mete
Girit identified himself as a former Baltimore police officer. He was
arrested after allegedly offering to have sex with an undercover
detective for $200.

Sheriff Grady Judd, of Polk County, announced the arrests that stem from a four-day undercover investigation Monday. He said the goal of the investigation is to identify victims of human trafficking and provide them with counseling.

A retired Baltimore police officer, now working as an escort, is one of 61 people arrested in a prostitution sting by a Florida sheriff's office.

Grady Judd, sheriff of Polk County, announced the arrests of 61 people at a Monday afternoon press conference.

The suspects, between the ages of 18-68 years of age, include one married couple, a 6 1/2 months pregnant woman, and 29-year-old retired cop, Mete Girit, who allegedly sought $200 for sex. READ MORE

Among the horrifying
abuses detailed in the Senate report: Waterboarding, a torture mechanism
that brings the subject to the verge of drowning, was far more popular
than the CIA had let on; "rectal feedings" and "rectal hydrations" were
used to strip detainees of any measures of autonomy; and a particularly
damning segment of the report notes that the CIA did not punish an agent
who killed a detainee in the course of interrogations. The summary is
based on millions of documents surveyed over five years, and is just a
fraction of the length of the full, still-classified, 6,000-page report.READ MORE

A new religious tyranny act has been fast tracked in Michigan, and is not waiting for the Senate to pass it.

Christian special pleading has hit my home state, and soon, it'll be coming to yours, too, in the wake of the November Republican sweep.

My state was the birth place of the Republican party, back when they were the good guys - back when they were the party of anti-slavery, when they had a progressive wing that included presidents like Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Michigan has always been seen as a blue state, but the truth is much different: we're mostly Detroit, Ann Arbor, Bay City, and to a lesser extent, Flint, surrounded by the very worst of Mississippi. READ MORE

A California woman was outraged when she found what appear to be swastikas adorning Hanukkah gift wrap at a local Walgreens.

Cheryl Shapiro called her rabbi and then the manager at the Northridge, Calif., store, NBC Los Angeles reported.

"I really put my foot down because I was appalled by this," said Shapiro, who was with her grandson Saturday when she noticed the offensive logo apparently woven into a pattern on gold and blue wrapping paper. READ MORE

EXCLUSIVE: In 179 fatalities involving on-duty NYPD cops in 15 years, only 3 cases led to indictments — and just 1 conviction

A Daily News analysis of NYPD-involved deaths starts with the 1999 slaying of unarmed Amadou Diallo in a hail of bullets in the Bronx and ends with last month’s shooting death of Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn stairwell. Where race was known, 86% were black or Hispanic.

A Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict white NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the chokehold death of Eric Garner — a black father of six — stunned large swaths of the city and added fuel to a nationwide surge of protests over police killings.

But history shows the odds were always in Pantaleo’s favor.

A Daily News investigation found that at least 179 people were killed by on-duty NYPD officers over the past 15 years. Just three of the deaths have led to an indictment in state court. In another case, a judge threw out the indictment on technical grounds and it was not reinstated.

Only one officer who killed someone while on duty has been convicted, but he was not sentenced to jail time.

The analysis of the police-involved deaths begins with the 1999 slaying of unarmed Amadou Diallo in a hail of bullets and ends with last month’s shooting death of Akai Gurley, who police say was hit by a ricocheting bullet fired by a rookie cop in a darkened housing project stairwell in Brooklyn. Gurley was also unarmed.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

For 104 days, the police have lied and said Mike Brown was killed 35 feet away from Darren Wilson's SUV. It was actually 148 feet.
This distance is essential to the defense and how Darren Wilson must demonstrate that he "reasonably feared for his safety." At the point in which Mike Brown ran half a football field away, how reasonable is it for an armed officer to fear anyone?
On the afternoon of August 9, 2014, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Mike Brown, an unarmed teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri. Below is the first video filmed from Canfield Drive, where the shooting occurred, showing the exact measurement between where Darren Wilson's SUV was parked and Mike Brown died. After that, we methodically debunk the lie that Mike Brown was killed in close proximity to Darren Wilson's SUV.
Our starting point, which is 17 feet behind the driver's side window of Darren Wilson's SUV, is this yellow fire hydrant next to the storm drain. READ MORE

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Paris (AFP) - French scientists said Tuesday they had found the genetic mechanism by which two HIV-infected men may have experienced a "spontaneous cure", and said it offered a new strategy in the fight against AIDS.
Both men were infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), one of them 30 years ago, but never developed AIDS symptoms.
The AIDS-causing virus remained in their immune cells but was inactivated because its genetic code had been altered, the scientists said.
The change appeared to be linked to increased activity of a common enzyme named APOBEC, they theorised.
The "apparent spontaneous cure" throws up an intriguing avenue for drug engineers, the team said in a statement.
"The work opens up therapeutic avenues for a cure, using or stimulating this enzyme, and avenues for identifying individuals among newly-infected patients who have a chance of a spontaneous cure."
The work, published in the journal Clinical Microbiology and Infection, was carried out by scientists at France's Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm).
HIV replicates by invading human CD4 immune cells, which it reprogrammes to become virus factories.
A rare group of people -- fewer than one percent of those infected -- are naturally able to rein in viral replication and keep the virus at clinically undetectable levels.
They are known as "elite controllers", but the mechanism by which they keep the virus at bay remains a mystery.
The French group looked at two such individuals, a 57-year-old man diagnosed HIV-positive in 1985, and a 23-year-old diagnosed in 2011, and sequenced their virus genomes.
Though they remained infected, standard tests could not detect the virus in their blood.
The team found that in both cases, the virus was unable to replicate in immune cells due to mutations in its genetic code.
The researchers suggested spontaneous evolution between humans and the virus, a process called "endogenisation" that is believed to have neutralised other viruses in humans in the past. READ MORE

Forty years later, only one state is making reparations for thousands of forced sterilizations.
From the early decades of the 20th century until 1974, 32 states in the union mandated the sterilization of more than 65,000 citizens. At the behest of government eugenics boards, girls and women had their tubes tied or uteri removed, and boys and men their vasa deferentia snipped because they had been deemed unfit to reproduce. Still others came under the scalpel of private doctors, and this second group makes the calculations difficult—65,000 represents only the number of sterilizations where there was municipal paperwork.
In 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Eugenics Compensation statute, and last week the state’s department of commerce began the long-awaited disbursement of financial reparations to victims of sterilization. Two hundred twenty living victims will receive checks of $20,000 each—220 checks, out of 768 claims. Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized at least 7,600 people. However mortifying the disparity here, we must give the Assembly credit for passing legislation that no other state has so far brought to a vote; by contrast, California has kept positively mum about its own similar history, which accounts for a third of all American sterilizations.
READ MORE

Saturday, November 1, 2014

How is the school administration comfortable that, a teacher, who, obviously hates blacks (innocent or not), is now, or has been treating black children fairly? Is she undermining black children surreptitiously? Is she finding ways to damage their self esteem? Directing snide and/or dismissive remarks to whatever black children have to offer? So many ways she can covertly work to hurt the black students entrusted to her care. Yet, the administrators feel there's nothing to be concerned about? Perhaps they feel the same way she does? Just a few thoughts that come to mind.

Student's Mom Says Teacher Told Class She'd Kill All Black People If She Had 10 Days To Live

A teacher is back in the classroom after reportedly telling students that she'd kill all black people if she only had one week to live.
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A North Carolina teacher is under investigation after a parent notified school officials of an incredibly racist remark she made during class. Cynthia Ramsey, a math teacher at Camden County High School, was talking to a student in a classroom when she brought up her "bucket list."
"She conveyed to me that Mrs. Ramsey had indicated that if she only had 10 days to live that she would kill all black people," Kimberly Ashcraft, the student's mother, told WAVY-TV. Other students were around, and confirmed that the teacher had made the remark.
"I was completely shocked," Ashcraft said. "I asked her again, 'are you sure that was what you heard?' I could not have imagined a teacher saying that."
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

On Monday, I wrote about the IRS practice of
emptying private bank accounts when it appears to the government that
there exists a pattern of bank deposits seeking to skirt the bank
reporting laws requiring all deposits of $10,000 or more to be reported
by the bank to the government.

The seizures are the result of a law passed in 2000 requiring banks
to look for and report ‘structuring’ cases where bank deposits by an
individual or business reveal a pattern of depositing sums just below
the $10,000 reporting trigger in an effort to hide large deposits from
the government.
The point of the law is to help the federal government hone in on
terrorists, drug dealers and other criminals who deal in large sums of
cash.

As noted in my earlier piece, the most recent statistics indicate
that the law has gone wildly off-course with approximately 80 percent of
those who had their accounts seized in 2012 turning out to be
completely innocent people who did not meet the profile of a terrorist,
drug dealer or any other sort of criminal that the law was created to
impact.

While I suppose one can argue that mistakes happen—particularly when
the government is involved—one might also suppose that, upon learning of
the error, the IRS would be all too anxious to return the money, with
interest and damages, along with a profound apology for any damage done.
Not so much. READ MORE

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(note link didn't work previously because of changes to how the white house petition system now operates, until 150 people sign the petition is only available through this link. which you may copy and post elsewhere. Thank you.)

You'll have to click in the image box and click again to read the next tip, but this info could prove very helpful. The less food that goes bad means that we'll all have more and at lower prices to boot.

Here's a read for anyone who has been entertaining the idea that slavery could have been a benefit to slaves, because of their benevolent masters. After reading this you'll realize that most slaves were being worked on starvation diets, injured by "disciplinary actions" and left to die from infectious diseases. If they survived at all, you will be left to wonder how that happened.